Kenan Thompson has talked about his time working with Dan Schneider at Nickelodeon for the primary time because the launch of the documentary Quiet on Set: The Darkish Aspect of Youngsters TV.
The veteran Saturday Night time Reside forged member labored on Schneider-produced exhibits All That and its spinoff collection, Kenan & Kel, within the Nineteen Nineties.
Throughout Wednesday’s Tamron Corridor Present, he talked about his expertise now that the documentary has blown the lid off the scenario (Thompson’s feedback on it begin at 6:30 within the above video.)
“It’s robust. It’s a troublesome topic, you understand?” Thompson mentioned. “It’s robust for me as a result of I can’t actually converse on issues that I by no means witnessed, you understand what I’m saying? As a result of all this stuff occurred after I left, mainly.”
He continued, “Dan wasn’t actually on Kenan & Kel like that,” he mentioned. “I imply, he received a ‘created by’ credit score, nevertheless it was a special showrunner, so our worlds wasn’t actually overly overlapping like that exterior of All That, essentially. After which all of that negativity kinda began taking place exterior of our tenure there, you understand what I imply? So I wasn’t actually conscious of lots of it.”
Schneider wasn’t as indifferent as Thompson signifies. He had writing credit on 11 Kenan & Kel episodes, and is credited as a co-executive producer on each episode of the present’s first two seasons.
Schneider additionally wrote and produced quite a few episodes of All That that Thompson appeared in. He additionally had a screenwriter and co-producer credit score on Good Burger, the film spinoff of the All That phase.
Thompson expressed sympathy to his fellow former Nickelodeon stars who mentioned the poisonous work surroundings they endured in Quiet on Set.
“My coronary heart goes out to anyone that’s been victimized, or their households,” he mentioned. “I feel it’s a superb factor that the doc is out and it’s placing issues on show, tales that have to be advised for accountability’s sake. However it’s positively robust to observe as a result of I’ve fond reminiscences of that place and I’ve fond reminiscences of my costars and stuff like that. So to listen to that they’ve gone by way of horrible issues like that’s actually robust.”
Thompson added, “Examine extra,” he mentioned. “It’s alleged to be a protected place for teenagers. And to listen to all about that is rather like, ‘How dare you?’”
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